Improvement in stove-bottoms



G. S. STANNARD. Stove-Bottom.

No. 202,883. Patented April 23,1878.

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UNITED STATES GAYLORD S. STANNARD, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SHERMAN S. JEWETT 86 00.,

PATENT ()FFIGE.

OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-BOTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202,883, dated April 23, 1879; application filed February 20, 1878.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GAYLORD S. STANNARD, of the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stove-Bottoms, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a removable leg-rest or seat for a stove-leg, so constructed that it will obviate the necessity of building up material in the bottom plate of a stove, in order to receive the dovetail of a leg made at right angles.

In the old way a mass of metal is required in order to bring the leg-seat down to a level with the lower edge of a bottom plate, and the cooling of this mass of metal after the plate is removed from the mold is the cause of cracks more or less damaging to the plate, and in use the natural contraction and expansion are liable to cause cracks in the plate near the leg-seat,which necessitates replacing, sometimes at considerable trouble and cost.

In manufacturing, with the improved legseat a deeper and bolder molding can be used, and, should it be deemed best to use three legs instead of four, it can be done without altering patterns, and in use, if one of the cleats should be broken, it necessitates replacing the portable rest only instead of the entire bottom.

Figure 1 in the drawing represents a section of the bottom plate of a stove with the legrest in position, A being the leg-rest; B, sec tion of bottom; a, brace; 01 d, the lugs through which the leg is secured to the bottom; e, stop, against which the brace c rests when the legrestis in position, and which serves to strengthen the brace c and hold the leg-rest firmly to its place.

Fig. 2 represents the leg-rest detached from the bottom, like letters having reference to like parts.

I claim The portable leg-rest A, in combination with the lugs 61 d, brace c, and stop 6, cast on or bolted to the stove-bottom, all as set forth and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 16th day of February, 1878.

GAYLORD S. STANNARD.

Witnesses CHARLES G. WILLIAMS, JAMES O. MUNROE. 

